A minimal wayland compositor with various layouts, animations and all the eye-candy.

features

• tiling and floating toplevels
• master layout with support for multiple masters, ideal for wide monitors
• keyboard focused workflow
• gestures support for touchpads
• great multitasking with multimonitor and workspaces support
• smooth and customizable animations
• easy configuration with hot reloading on save
• eye-candy (opacity, blur, rounded corners and shadows)
• portals and an ipc for integrating with other apps

install

AUR

paru -S ashwc

dependencies

• meson*
• ninja*
• wayland-protocols*
• wayland
• libinput
• libdrm
• pixman
• libxkbcommon
• wlroots 20.0
• scenefx 0.5

* compile-time dependencies

building

git clone https://github.com/shadowash8/ashwc
cd ashwc
meson setup build
ninja -C build

usage

ashwc [--debug]

configuration is done in a configuration file found at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/ashwc/ashwc.conf or $HOME/.config/ashwc/ashwc.conf. if no config is found a default config will be used (you need ashwcs installed, see above).

you can use other configuration location by setting ASHWC_CONFIG_PATH before running ashwc.

for detailed documentation see default.conf.

screenshots

community

join us at discord

acknowledgement

ashwc is a fork of the amazing mwc